Darman, Peter

Provides eyewitness accounts from participants in the First Gulf War, 1990-91, Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003-10, and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, 2001-10, drawn from a cross section of nationalities and services.

"Packed with intriguing questions and answers, thought-provoking quotes, and fascinating "did-you-know?" boxes, the World War II Fact Book is a new way to find out about the most destructive conflict in history. Test your knowledge of the war's strategy, battles, spies, weapson, and commanders - or learn new facts about the war and its consequences" (publisher).

On December 7, 1941, the Japanese air force launched a surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet moored in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, that changed the course of World War II. Period photographs and 4-color maps of battles provide readers with an incredible learning experience, along with spellbinding eyewitness reports as sidebars.

World War II was an extremely violent war. This title examines how Hitler set about expanding German territory by force, first by annexing Czechoslovakia and then by invading Poland. When Hitler's military unleashed the Blitzkrieg campaign on Poland in September 1939, Great Britain and France declared war on Germany and World War II began.

Discusses what daily life was like for average people during World War II, including in the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union, Axis home fronts, and in occupied Europe.

Accessible text details the murderous policies that the Hitler and the Nazis inflicted upon Jews and other "undesirables" in occupied Europe during the Holocaust. The book documents developments under the Nazi regime, including the exclusion of Jews from German life in the 1930s through the systematic murder of millions of European Jews.